WWW - Early color pictures from Russia
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Color Photos From the World War I Era Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them to produce accurate color images. found in DamnInteresting Related links : The empire that was Russia & WWI color photos |